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Originally Posted by Hypocrisy
Led Zeppelin outright lifted stuff from Wille Dixon etc. But the music was presented in a completely different high energy electrified manner as to make it their own... quite an achivement when considering some of It was stolen ...so yes and no. They lifted but they also created a new vision not really touched upon before them. Others had shown a desire to be heavier. .Cream etc. But no one really achieved true heaviness before Zeppelin laid the ground worki
I supposed you needed to be there to really comprehend my full meaning of their impact..
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Mostly agree.
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Originally Posted by Key
Zeppelin ripped off everyone.
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Not post-punk.
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Originally Posted by Blank.
Didn't they also steal from white artists? Why so much focus on black people?
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Free thought so.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
well they took this really dangerous music African American were playing
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Blues was unlikely that dangerous.
Gospel music that inspired freedom riders was more dangerous.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
and made it about mystical dragons
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I like it when they went to Middle Earth.
(The guy in Sloan would likely agree with you, though.)
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Originally Posted by elphenor
kids can list it as their favorite band forever now
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glad that's mostly over.
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Originally Posted by ialwaysbetheone
Zeppelin didn't "steal" from anybody...WTF does that even mean to "steal"
Zeppelin was certainly influenced by Blues in their early career, which I guess you can say is a "black" genre, but they put their own twist on it that was completely unique
this is like saying Einstein "stole" from Newton...or Beethoven "stole" from Mozart
or James Joyce "stole" from Homer
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Einstein, Beethoven, and Joyce might have more freely admitted specific influences, Zeppelin didn't.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
I didn't use the word "steal" so don't quote me if that's your complaint
It's just the case that artists like Zeppelin didn't so much as build on the blues as much as they ruined it
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Originally Posted by elphenor
I'm more saying the music they produced was a ruined version of the blues
Not that it somehow retroactively makes The Chambers Brothers not amazing
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like blues is a ruined version of whatever they played in Africa?
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
Did anyone else notice the intro of Sick Again sounds awful close to I'm Free by The Who? The the five strums, not the whole thing. I think the first second of each song are uncannily similar.
Sick Again
[the YT video]
The Who - I'm Free 5 July 1969
[the YT video]
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It does at the very beginning. The latter is better.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
How about these?
[Shake Your Hips ~ The Rolling Stones]
[ZZ Top - La Grange]
All of the bigs bands of that era were unconsciously borrowing from each other.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange_(song)
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The initial groove of the song is based on a traditional boogie blues rhythm used by John Lee Hooker in "Boogie Chillen'" and by Slim Harpo in "Shake Your Hips". A failed lawsuit by the copyright holder of "Boogie Chillen'" resulted in the court ruling that the rhythm was in the public domain.[7] The line "a-how-how-how-how" is quoted from John Lee Hooker's song "Boom Boom".
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Still, ZZtop's still original enough for me, and good IMO.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
nah that's boring to me
I used to actually think I hated the blues but then I heard it done right and pure:
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We were too young for the blues.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
it's not that they stole anything it's that they adopted a style of music pioneered by oppressed African Americans in the south, outsiders
And then just made it lame, a crime in itself really
Not even singling out Led Zep here really
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I agree with your first line;
and again, as mentioned before, add that they didn't credit it as they should.
and maybe that their wealth and success revealed how racist our society was/is.
Why is RHCP most successful than Fishbone?
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Originally Posted by elphenor
"adopted for a white audience" is the proper terminology
See: Elvis
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Another target—and maybe also a little unfairly.
Might as well add Stones and [name whatever white rapper] to this.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
What would the worlds forever most popular hard rock band do without terrapin sticking up for them
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Those frikin' polls decades ago.
This video is 1:01:50 long and begins with some talk. Click to about 7:30, maybe listen a couple minutes.
Delta Blues—Mekong Delta that is.
I wouldn't be surprised if Plant and/or Paged jammed with him.